Actually the reuse/no-reuse parameter doesn't tell you whether AMANDA will accept the tape on the next run; it refers to whether AMANDA considers that tape in the media pool available for that config. Unlike a program such as Lone-Tar Backup where you can put just about anything in the drive and it will use it, AMANDA actually manages the tape pool and forces you to use the correct tape in order.
If you look at tapelist (/usr/local/etc/Amanda/[config]/tapelist), note the tape on the top of the list -- that tape and that tape only will be accepted for the next run. A quicker way to check is to, while logged in as the Amanda backup user, run /usr/local/sbin/amadmin [config] tape (e.g. /usr/local/sbin/amadmin daily tape). The response message will tell you the tape it expects next in a message such as "The next Amanda run should go onto tape Daily03 or a new tape." If you want to have 35 tapes in your tapelist, you can't set aside sub-pools. Let's say you set aside tapes 1-4 for Monday's job but it only took three tapes to do the backup. You must insert tape 4 as the first tape in the next run; you may think of Tape 5 as the first tape in the Tuesday set, but AMANDA doesn't -- it wants Tape 4 next. Larry A. Dunham Firstech, Inc. Decatur, IL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Ted Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Amanda refusing to reuse old tapes Am I missing something really easy here.... I have 35 tapes in rotation with a Dell Powervault 120T 7 tape autochanger. Usually the backups only take about 2 or 3 tapes, I have runtapes set to 4 just in case. This is still a work in progress. The problem that I am having is that when amanda uses the the last set of tapes (DailyDLT-29-35) and the next available tapes (DailyDLT-01-07) are loaded, amanda thinks they are active and refuses to use them. For example, even though the tape list shows an entry like "20040801 DailyDLT-01 reuse " well over the 7 day dumpcycle and not even containing data that is needed for a full dump, amanda still thinks the tape is active and won't use it. For a workaround i keep having to amrmtape and amlabel to relabel it and set tapelist right- I know I must be missing something simple... Am I correct in understanding that by setting the dumpcycle to one week that amanda should happily reuse any tape older than seven days provided there were not any errors in the previous weeks run? Here's an excerpt from my amanda.conf: dumpcycle 7 days runspercycle 7 tapecycle 35 tapes bumpsize 20 Mb bumpdays 1 bumpmult 4 etimeout -3600 dtimeout 1800 ctimeout 1300 tapebufs 20 runtapes 4 Thanks for any help!! Jay -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
